As the pandemic subsided during the summer months in Europe, the southern states of the United States experienced a surge in cases. We brought a first hand account from Linda Barnard in a New Orleans care home: It’s getting real in here. Newly established, the isolation ward has been set up too close for comfort. … Read more
By May concerns around the erosion of civil liberties in the wake of the pandemic were apparent. Rob Coffey’s though-provoking article ‘I Do Not Consent’ began: I didn’t particularly want to write this article. I didn’t want to get involved in the whole online social media circus of opinion and rebuttal, triggering and offense. But … Read more
Liberation For the first time since landing I’m allowed to travel the country. My plans to go to Japan and practice Aikido with the masters are on a massive stand by. Hanoi’s fishermen are back on the landscape, monstrous exhaust clouds blurring the skies again. My backbone feels their soggy reels, its toxic dust, and … Read more